Sentence examples for slum complex from inspiring English sources
As those communities were cleared, some gang members fled to Alemão, a violent, sprawling slum complex with some 100,000 residents that the city's police chief, José Mariano Beltrame, called "the heart of evil".
RIO DE JANEIRO — Police and Brazilian Army soldiers, struggling to take control of a second huge slum complex here, were fired on by drug gangs on Friday, but by nightfall they had managed to trap the traffickers inside, a military spokesman said.
Tanks, helicopters and armoured vehicles are being used in the operation at the Mare slum complex.
Earlier this month, nearly 3,000 soldiers and police took control of one of Rio's most dangerous shanty towns, the Mare slum complex, near the main international airport.
Almost all slums have complex issues about land rights, and the lack of land ownership creates a vicious cycle – not only public authorities, but banks and developers are unwilling to invest without clear land titles.
These forward-thinking Egyptians view the neighborhoods not as endless slums but complex cities in themselves, home to entrepreneurs, government officials and many young educated Cairenes; and they recognize that the future of Cairo will require grass-roots organization.
In 2012 a forest camera-trap counted as many as 21 leopards in the park, and footage of the big cats in the slums, residential complexes and schools of urban Mumbai has shaped what many think of SGNP's leopards.
She opted for better street lighting, social spots and more creches to improve the conditions for women in this large and complex slum neighbourhood.
The strength of this study was that it was unique in its kind, conducted in an urban slum, a very complex study area and home to around one million highly mobile multi-ethnic people, living in an area the size of Central Park in New York.
Every urban slum creates challenges too complex for governments to resolve when working alone.
Recent studies have identified that the conventional perception of slums as distinctive homogeneous settlements is incorrect, rather slums are diverse and complex systems that cannot be addressed through one-size fits all approaches.
